SBL Coptic Font

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Posted by: JudyRedman
         
I have just begun a thesis on the parables that appear in both the Gospel of Thomas and the Synoptics and my supervisor advised me to download and install the SBL Coptic and Greek fonts because she believes that they are going to become standard for publishing in the field.  I've just done that and made keyboard maps for both and am wondering about the rationale for the keyboard map for the Coptic font.  

Last year while I was learning Coptic, I downloaded and installed the Coptic fonts available from the Coptic Orthodox Church at http://www.copticchurch.net/coptic_fonts/ and I can quite happily touch type in Coptic (although not as quickly as I can in English), but the SBL keyboard mapping is going to make touch typing very difficult because quite a few of the commonly used characters are in the top row of the keyboard.  I am wondering why you chose to map this way, especially since the Coptic Orthodox people have had free fonts available for some time and since they have been working on standardising Coptic keyboard mapping for a number of years.

Regards

Judy Redman

         

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Posted by: pld_sbl
         
Judy,

The Coptic font on the SBL website, SPAcmin, was developed almost a decade ago now when Jimmy Adair and I were at Scholars Press.

I honestly don't recall at this point why that particular keyboard was chosen but do seem to recall discussion of various alternative keyboards. Perhaps there was, at that time, no clear favorite for a Coptic keyboard.

The SBL Greek font has yet to appear, what you see on the site is another font developed at Scholars Press. John Hudson has posted recently to say that the SBL Greek font will be appearing later this year.

We don't have fixed plans for fonts beyond Hebrew, Greek and Latin at this point, but the next fonts are under discussion. I take it that you would be most interested in a Copitc font?

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

Patrick Durusau
Director, SBL Font Foundation
patrick.durusau@sbl-site.org
         

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Posted by: twuandy
         
Patrick,
And how about a translit font that works?  Jimmy Adair's spaces between the
words don't register working in Word.  That means I have to switch from
SPAtlantis into Times-Roman after every word  in order to get a word break
that registers for line wrapping.  I contacted Jimmy Adair, and he politely
said, "Sorry about that, nothing I can do".
Andy Fincke

>From: "pld_sbl"
>Reply-To: "SBL Fonts"
>To: "SBL Fonts"
>Subject: Re: SBL Coptic Font
>Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:39:11 -0800
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Posted by: twuandy
         
Can anyone tell me of software that works with Word and enables creation of
a Scripture Index.  The index Word makes is alpabetically ordered
(Amos-Baruch etc.), not ordered by Scripture Book (Genesis -Exodus etc.).
Andy Fincke

>From: "pld_sbl"
>Reply-To: "SBL Fonts"
>To: "SBL Fonts"
>Subject: Re: SBL Coptic Font
>Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:39:11 -0800
>


         

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Posted by: KentSBL1
         

It would be very good to have someone with your expertise working with keyboards as we turn to new languages.  As Patrick has indicated we are not certain which font will be next on the list.  However, I assume that of the alphabetic Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic would be high on the list.  Keep in touch with Patrick.

 

Thanks for your interest.

 

Kent

         

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Posted by: Peter
         

Hi Patrick,

 

Trust you are well. On the topic of SBL Greek, I was just searching all over to find the post about when it would be released -- as you mention it was later this year i was just wondering just how much later? Only reason is that i need to go down the route of a Greek font for my exams and i really would prefer to go the SBL route first rather than relearn later.....

 

If you have an estimation of the nearest likely month that would be fantastic and I do apologise for asking I know you are all working hard and we are very grateful for SBL making these fonts available. I am personally finding SBL Hebrew absolutely brilliant and nearly becoming independent of my keyboard layout charts. (well, almost)

 

Thanks so much again and sorry to trouble you,

 

kindest regards

Peter Alkema

         

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Posted by: John Hudson
         
Peter, as I wrote in the thread enquring when the SBL Greek would be released: The upright Greek is in a reasonably advanced state, but I'm still revising it (the italic needs more work). My goal is to have both the Greek and Latin fonts and and update of the Hebrew completed in the May-July timeframe. I'm actually taking a kind of sabbatical during that time in order to get this finished.

I expect the Hebrew update will be available in May. There may be a beta Greek font in June, but it will likely not be optimised for screen display; the latter takes time and will be completed for the Greek while I am working on the remaining Latin, apparatus symbols, etc. into July. The whole collection should be available at the end of July or in early August.

Thanks all, for your patience, and my apologies that this has taken so long.
         

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Posted by: Ken Penner
         
Peter Alkema noted:

> i need to go down the route of a Greek font for my exams and i really
would prefer to go the SBL route first rather than relearn later.....
 
One of the great things about Unicode is that you don't have to relearn
anything to use a new Unicode font.
You can use the keyboard layout provided with your operating system (E.g.,
Polytonic Greek, for Windows XP), and use some of the presently available
Unicode Greek fonts (such as Gentium, Galatia SIL, BibliaLS, etc.) to type
in Greek, then when the SBL Greek font is released, simply change the font
face in your document. No relearning or conversion or retyping is necessary.

Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Greek), M.A. (Hebrew),
Ph.D. cand., McMaster University
Coordinator, Funk's Grammar Digitization Project
pennerkm@mcmaster.ca
Greek vocabulary software: http://s91279732.onlinehome.us/flash or
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flash_pro/join


         

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Posted by: Ken Penner
         
Andy Fincke asked:
      And how about a translit font that works?

Do the existing fonts that include the Latin Extended characters not serve
your purpose? Cardo and Doulos SIL are two that may be quite adequate.
Or is your question more about an efficient input method to get at these
characters (which are unfortunately not contiguous in the Unicode spec)? MS
Keyboard Layout Creator may be your answer, if running Windows XP.

Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Regent College), M.A. (McMaster)
Ph.D. cand., Religious Studies,
Biblical Field (Early Judaism major)
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada
pennerkm@mcmaster.ca
Flash! Pro vocabulary software: http://s91279732.onlinehome.us/flash or
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flash_pro/join


         

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